LakeClan ~ Claim-a-Cat [OPEN]

LakeClan

Welcome to LakeClan, a claim-a-cat roleplay. It is one of seven clans.
Other Clan Pages - BoulderClan | BreezeClan | EvergreenClan | MeadowClan | ShadeClan | TorClan
Sub Pages - Borders and Beyond | Cave of Mist and Moon | StarClan | Sycamore Seven | [OoC] Symposium of Seven
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LakeClan is made up large cats with glossy fur which actually enjoy spending time in the water. They have a love of swimming that other cats oft scorn and are confused by. They are Clan which lives closest to the Lake, especially as a quarter of their territory is on a peninsula. These cats love the sound of moving water and the taste of fish. They are well adapted to the water with their diet mostly made up of fish enabling their glossy coats to keep them from sinking like a non fish eating cat might if they don't know how to swim. Save for their kits and elders they are the Clan most likely not to lose their lives from drowning. Still they're intelligent enough to know when they need to be leary of the Lake - such as when the water is rising and a storm is passing through.

They do have some trees in their territory, mostly closer to their borders. But most of their habitat is grass and shrubland, reeds and cattails. Mud and pebbles along the lake shore. They are one of the least hostile toward loners, but they have no time for rogues or kittypets. Unless a kittypet can swim better than any living clan member they would never even try taking them into the clan despite all of the seven clans having been begun by kittypets, loner and rogues. They will however not hesitate to rescue a kit, but they believe a kit belongs with its mother and so it is a rare thing to see them ever have kits in their camp which are not born of their clan queens.


LakeClan is one of seven clans that came to be countless seasons ago when their ancestors were caught by twolegs and placed in large dens which could float on water (to the twolegs this would be the 11th century Norsemen). On these dens which floated on water for days and moons on end their ancestors caught rats and were given bits of fish by the twolegs when there were not enough rats as kits were born. Some of these cats and their kits escaped once the twolegs anchored in the New World and found themselves living in the wild like their long distant ancestors before them. Still others remained on the ships and returned again and again with other cats who were used to catch vermin on the floating twoleg dens.

One of the first cats to think it would be easier to live as a group rather than on ones own was Laika so named by the twolegs while they crossed over the sun-drown place. Six others too thought of this and so they and Bond began their camps. Later on they were given nine lives by StarClan and so Laika became Lakestar for she had settled her camp in an area of the Lake.

:aleClan, on full moon nights visits with the other six clans that were born at the same time as their own ancestor, Boulderstar was given his nine lives. These clans are known as BreezeClan, BoulderClan EvergreenClan, MeadowClan, ShadeClan and TorClan.




oo1. Forum rules. Please be sure to follow them.

oo2. Respect is to be given to everyone. Respect must be given to the rules too.

oo3. Be sure to include others in plots, or just let anyone jump in and see what happens.

oo4. In regards to activity I hope to see each individual on a minimum of thrice a week to roleplay. More-so for anyone holding an important role such as leader, deputy, medicine cat, or medicine cat apprentice. If one will need to be absent for over a week please let me know. Otherwise you'll be removed from the roleplay after a fortnight.

oo5. In regards to literacy we'd like to see proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling. Spell-check and Grammarly are your friends. However a few mishaps here and there can be overlooked. But please no 'txt speak' or the like. In OoC its fine.

oo6. Characters should have both weaknesses and strengths. No character is perfect nor the opposite. QUILTBAG+ characters are more than welcome to join. Please note however that while cats cannot have surgery they can still choose to use whatever pronouns they prefer. Just don't make this their only trait.

oo7. There is to be no godmodding, powerplay, or metagaming. If your character tries to kill someone else's character it is up to them whether or not their own character dies. Also please be realistic for no cat can catch every bit of prey, or never get hurt in battle whether against other cats or predators.

oo8. Cats do age and so elders should eventually join StarClan.

oo9. Apprentices can have neither mate nor kits. Only once an apprentice has gained warrior status may they take on a mate. Apprentices however may have crushes.

o10. Please no spotlighting. No one individual should be the center of attention. Not all the time anyway.

o11. Please try to make characters as realistic as possible. At least realistic enough to where they'd fit into the books. Which means no magical powers, not even those seen in PoT or OotS.

o12. Please do not spam or advertise here, thank you.

o13. Please note you may only play one high ranking role at any given time. These are clan leader, deputy, medicine cat, or medicine cat apprentice.

o14. Do note that you may not roleplay until you've used the joining form located at the end of the clan allegiance. And because this is a claim-a-cat clan you'll need to choose a pre-existing feline who is open.

o15. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to help in any way.